Rotary International Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of James Clark
James Russell Clark, 87, the founder of West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific, died peacefully at home in El Macero, on Nov. 13, in the loving embrace of his wife, Sharron, and his family. A fourth-generation Californian, Jim was born Aug. 7, 1931 in Lompoc. His father was a blacksmith in the gold mines, and Jim grew up during the depression in Grass Valley (where he burned down their barn when he was eight he never had a cigarette since!) and Manteca as the third of four children. Even as a...
